New theatre for 2018: The Audit (or Iceland, a modern myth)

There’s a shadow coming, across the sea. Long and terrifying. The vultures are circling, the wolves are howling… how can we weather this storm?

The show reunites the team behind A Machine they’re Secretly Building, and continues our investigations into privilege, rights and power. This time we’re looking at greed and responsibility (corporate and personal), the contemporary myth-making that obscures and rewrites the truth, and asking what happens to a small island nation when it’s economic relationship with the rest of the world goes sour quickly…

10 years on from the 2008 financial crash – The Audit asks if we really weathered the storm?

With the true value of money and the human cost of greed firmly in their sights, Proto-type Theater tell the story of how a nation raised their voices in protest and railed against the currents.

In making the show, we’ve spoken with academics working in economics, and with interest and community groups across the country to share experiences and discuss the profit making that is driving force behind the decisions and system that affects our daily lives. We’ve also had truly unbelievable support from Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, ARC Stockton, Oxford Playhouse, Lancaster Arts, hAb/Word of Warning, artsdepot, Tramway, Curve Leicester, and Arts Council England. Thank you for all you help – we’re looking forward to showing you what we’ve made.

Using original text, performance, film, music and animation, THE AUDIT is about finding strength, overcoming a world designed to keep us docile, and how collective power can move a mountain – even if only a little.